Hamra House by Studio DinellJohansson // Sweden.This beautifully simple, compact summer house in Hamra, Sweden was designed by architecture studio DinellJohansson. The client initially asked for an existing barn to be converted into a summer house. Instead, DinellJohansson designed them...
So Hot Right Now // Living Large in Small Spaces.While Australia and a bunch of other places have firmly embraced the concept of McMansions, people in many other countries around the world have continued to live in small spaces for centuries. From Europe, to Asia and South America, small...
Harbour Attic Apartment in Genoa, Italy by Gosplan Architects.Harbour Attic Apartment designed by Gosplan Architects is a compact holiday dwelling sitting above an old fisherman’s harbour in Genoa,...
Gallery Post // Charlotte Perriand’s 1934 Miami Beach House by Louis Vuitton.Charlotte Perriand's Miami beach house was designed in 1934. Eight Decades later Louis Vuitton built it for a Design Miami 2013 satellite...
Villa Weinberg by Mette and Martin Wienberg // Højbjerg, Denmark.I wish this was my house. It's not - because life is not fair, and also because it belongs to Mette and Martin Wienberg, both architects. Both Danish architects at that, meaning my predisposition to like this place is as strong as Sarah...
House in Gerês by Graça Correia & Roberto Ragazzi // Portugal.I first saw this house published quite a while ago but it’s one of those projects that got under my skin, and is probably worth dusting off and looking at afresh. It’s a house in northern Portugal, by Graça Correia & Roberto Ragazzi....
Caja Oscura House in Paraguay by Javier Corvalán.Caja Oscura house in Paraguay by Javier Corvalán has a box-like structure that tilts to open the entire house up to the surrounding...
The Cottage by Gray Organschi Architecture.I like a couple of things about this project. One of these things is that it reminds me of the beautiful Killiney House by Ireland's O'Donnell and Tuomey, a masterful cascade of concrete with wonky roofs and trees and views a lot like...
Fun House by UdA Architetti // Holiday Apartment Renovation in Juan Les Pins, France.A little while ago, I dedicated an entire post to the sensational Turin-based multidisciplinary studio UdA Architetti. Back then, I eloquently described their work as "shit hot design with truckload of personality". How lady-like of me....
